What resources are you using to keep up to date with IFRS?

Both IBM and SAP provide free and very useful information on IFRS & XBRL issues and solutions right on the websites.

I posed a similar question on PF and a couple of Groups that I belong to to get a pause on what most of my colleagues were doing and planning. There was a question similar to yours and this is the links I sent and he found useful so here goes: From previous conversations I have had I found that most US companies are not making plans yet for any convergence to the new standards and some Controllers I talked with do not even know the SEC deadline. Here are some of the informational links that may help of help to you getting started.

Although, I don’t know where you are with US SEC XBRL reporting , this short blurb on the XBRL Reporting and the Oracle sponsored Webcast, might be of interest to you. What Is Interactive Data and Who's Using It? If you want more information this link is a good start: http://xbrl.sec.gov/

Here is another site I think you may benefit from: http://www.tryxbrl.com/?gclid=CJDp7sK17KYCFQUSbAodN3wNBg This is a footnote from the site: Try XBRL is brought to you by RR Donnelley and EDGAR Online, leaders in XBRL conversion, filing, storage, distribution and application development.

This is all tying into the changes coming down the pike. IAS/IFRS standards are positioned by the SEC to take over US – GAAP. FASB has already issued a ton of statements (http://www.fasb.org/st/#eitf00 ). Which I am confident that you may already be aware of.

With the scheduled convergence December 15, 2014. I understand that the SEC will require 3 Back Financials under the new international Standards, which in reality they are saying that you have to restate the prior three years, if this is true, then this is the year (2011) that companies would probably want to begin the process of changing over to IASB/IFRS standards . This is what I know of who is on board with the standards already the: EU, Britain and several other international countries such as South Africa have already bitten the bullet, India, China, and Canada have requested extension and as I understand they got them. They will be on board by the SEC Deadline. As far as I know Mexico is already following the IAS/IFRS standards.

Here are two areas, if you haven’t done so, you may want to drill down on:

Coming with the Convergence for international Rev Rec Standards.
* Revenue Recognition Proposal is Impractical http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/web/20103660.html?act

* core principle of the 170 page exposure draft (http://www.fasb.org/cs/BlobServer?blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobkey=id&blobwhere=1175820852272&blobheader=application%2Fpdf ) “is that a company should recognize revenue when it transfers goods or services to a customer in the amount of consideration the company expects to receive from the customer,”

* may want to go here as well; The exposure draft, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers," is open for comment until Oct. 22, 2010 and can be accessed via the "Comment on a Proposal" section of www.iasb.org or on www.fasb.org.

* I understand it, a couple of the proposed standards would replace IAS 18, “Revenue,” IAS 11 (International Standards), “Construction Contracts,” and related interpretations. In U.S. GAAP, it would supersede most of the guidance on revenue recognition in Topic 605 of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification.

* link is a Q & A on International Rev Rec http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/AccountingAndAuditing/Resources/AcctgFinRptg/AcctgFinRptgGuidance/DownloadableDocuments/FINAL_Revenue_Recognition_FAQ.pdf .

US Corporate Income Tax Accounting Convergence:
* 109 and IAS 12: Insights on the corporate income tax accounting convergence project http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_tax_fas109_ias12_082208.pdf .

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I am not a transactor, so thrid party commentary has proven very useful. Recent analysts reports from Sarah Dean at Citi, Moshe Orenbach at Credit Suisse,Gregory Jonas at Morgan Stanley and Dane Mott at JPM Chase are pretty thorough and up to date. For practitioners, however, you had best follow the professional accounting blogs -- you have to put up with their attempt at humor.There a lists of the top 50 accounting blogs at the search engines.